Miss Universe
Entered the Miss Universe delegate info into an ACCESS database. (you can get the db for yourself
here if you want to play with it-and you can check out the delegates
here-I had to make some judgements on sight obviously-Ms. Puerto Rico is rather sightly if I must say so)
There were 73 delegates....
35 white
12 black
15 mixed race
6 Asian
4 East Indians
1
Of the countries-I classified majority races....
32 white
13 black
7 Asian
14 mixed Race
3 Native American (Pre-Columbian)
2 East Indian
1 Pacific Islander
Hair color-
10 blondes
37 brown
26 black
(sometimes I took the the delegate's word, but sometimes I let my eyes make the final decision :)
Eye color-
48 brown
11 blue
12 green
2 hazel
Using names and physical inspection-I find that the following numbers were or were not ethnic and/or racial and/or religious minorities
29 were minorities
44 were not
4 of the white nations sent non-white delegates
5 of the black nations sent non-black delegates (please note that many were obviously physically far more racially mixed than the norm of their respective nation-though in the United States some may have been termed black [high-yellow or red-bone types]-though Ms. South Africa was obviously white)
1 Asian nation sent a non-Asian delegate, Singapore where it seemed to me they sent an Indian women. Though physically she seemed Indian to me-her name was Muslim, so I thought maybe Malay, but when I looked at her interview she said she was a lawyer-so I put Indian knowing how many Singaporean lawyers were Indian
All 3 Native American nations sent non-Native American delegates, I believe Mestizos
1 nation with an East Indian majority (Mauritius) sent a black delegate (a large minority there)
8 delegates from "Mixed-race" nations were not of Mixed-race themselves. Most of these were whites from Latin America from mestizo nations-though there was a black woman from Hondorus and Columbia. There was only one blonde from Latin America-Ms. Uruguay, and she modestly put her hair color as "brown" though she was far more blonde than some of the supposed blondes (Ms. Sweden was half-black and put "blonde" as her hair color-though it seemed closer to a very dark auburn-I thought Swedes knew English?)
Ms. Egypt seemed to be a white immigrant-Ms. Malaysia as usual was ethnic Chinese, though Ms. France was white for a change (usually it seems they're black). I was surprised that some countries from Latin American sent very dark-skinned, even black, delegates.
Perhaps we are getting more progressive in terms of beauty standards....
Update: check out the "native costume" get-ups. Ms. South Africa is a white girl prancing around in a Zulu princess outfit while Ms. Sweden is a black girl dressed up as a freckle-faced milk-maid or something. Ms. Uruguay's dress needs to be seen to be described. Anyway, it's a good laugh.
Correction: a brilliant reader looked up info on Ms. Egypt-she's an Arab. Perhaps Lebanese? She mentions have visited that country so maybe her ancestral home. Who knows.